Tag: Penn Street (Treharris)

Merthyr’s Lost Buildings: Lost Chapels of the Treharris District

Carrying on with the requested look at Merthyr’s lost chapels, here is the final batch – the lost chapels of Treharris and District.

TREHARRIS

Bethania Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel

Penn Street, Treharris

Built 1880. Demolished 1970

No photo

Forest Road Pentecostal Mission

Forest Road, Treharris

Built ? Demolished ?

Photo courtesy of the Alan George Archive

Saron Welsh Wesleyan Chapel

John Street, Treharris

Built 1895. Demolished ?

Trinity Forward Movement Presbyterian Chapel

Perrott Street, Treharris

Built 1894. Rebuilt 1914. Demolished 2001.

Wesleyan Chapel

John Street, Treharris

Built 1883. Rebuilt 1900. Demolished ?

Photo courtesy of the Alan George Archive

Zion Primitive Methodist Chapel

Williams Terrace, Treharris

Built 1887. Rebuilt 1890. Demolished 1978

EDWARDSVILLE

Seion Welsh Independent Chapel

Cardiff Road, Edwardsville

Built 1902. Demolished ?

TRELEWIS

Ebenezer Welsh Independent Chapel

High Street, Trelewis

Built 1875. Rebuilt 1889. Demolished ?

Trinity English Baptist Chapel

Richards Terrace, Trelewis

Built 1909. Demolished 2016

BEDLINOG

Gosen Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel

High Street, Bedlinog

Built 1877. Rebuilt 1910. Demolished ?

QUAKERS’ YARD

Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Chapel

Built ? Demolished ?

Ebenezer Chapel in the centre of the photograph. Photo courtesy of the Alan George Archive

Horeb Welsh Wesleyan Chapel

Mill Road, Quakers’ Yard

Built 1833. Rebuilt 1839. Demolished ?

No Photo

Libanus Welsh Independent Chapel

Leigh Terrace, Quakers’ Yard

Built 1833. Rebuilt 1859. Demolished ?

Soar Welsh Independent

Pentwyn Deintyr, Quakers’ Yard

Built 1831. Demolished ?

No Photo

If anyone call fill in any of the dates in this article, or if anyone has photographs of the three chapels that I don’t have photos of, any information would be greatly appreciated.

Merthyr’s Chapels: Brynhyfryd Chapel, Treharris

The next chapel in our ongoing series is Brynhyfryd Baptist Chapel in Treharris.

In 1879, members of Berthlwyd Baptist Chapel in Quakers Yard started meeting in the house of Mr & Mrs Davies in Penn Street, Treharris, the first service being conducted by Rev Iorwerth Jones from Berthlwyd. The following month the small congregation started meeting at the Assembly Room at the Navigation Hotel.

Having met for over a year at the Navigation Hotel, the small congregation had grown considerably and it was decided that they should build their own chapel. A piece of land was acquired, and firstly a schoolroom was built. The architect was Rev Edward Roberts of Pontypridd, and the builder was Mr D E Jones of the Navigation Hotel. The building was started in August or September 1880, and the schoolroom was opened on Easter Sunday 1881, the building costing £350.

On 25 July 1881, Rev Arthur Davies was inducted as Brynhyfryd Chapel’s first minister, and the following month work began on building the main chapel. Rev Edward Roberts was again the architect and Mr John Rees of Treharris was the builder, and the chapel was built under the supervision of Mr Thomas Roderick of Aberdare. The chapel was opened on 13 May 1882 and was completed at a cost of £2,360.

In 1896 a pipe organ was installed by Messrs Davies Bros, Swansea at a cost of £320, and in 1901 Brynhyfryd Chapel purchased the empty Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Chapel in Quakers Yard and opened a branch there.

The interior of Brynhyfryd Chapel in its hey-day. Photo courtesy of https://www.treharrisdistrict.co.uk

Brynhyfryd Chapel closed in the early 2000’s and is now empty.